Having read about a Clifford Odets play being staged, I read his Wiki biography, wherein Jean Renoir is cited: Renoir dedicated a chapter of his autobiography to his friendship with Odets.[54]
That led me to look up Renoir, and read about him; I took his memoirs off the shelf, and read that chapter referred to above. I also read about his films. These are three of his works:
The Rules of the game (1939): A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs
of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house
party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic
charade that builds to a shattering climax.
Grand illusion (1938): A classic tale of adventure. Duty and honor conflict in a German
prisoner of war camp during World War I, when an aristocratic French
officer becomes friends with the commandant yet must cooperate with his
comrades in a daring escape.
Boudu saved from drowning Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932):
A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the
Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his
gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the
hidebound principles of his hosts.
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Happy Days will return
Nothing to fear : FDR's inner circle and the hundred days that created modern America / Adam Cohen.
More about the men around him than about FDR.
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